Sources: BBC
At least 63 people are killed, including seven soldiers, and others are reported missing in attacks by Boko Haram jihadists in Darul Jamal, Borno State, Nigeria. 2025-09-5
Seven people are killed and 31 injured after a truck crashed in Gombe State, Nigeria. 2025-01-2
Twenty-five people are killed in an attack by gunmen on motorcycles in Dikwa, Borno State, Nigeria. 2022-06-9
At least 50 people are killed in a mass shooting and bombing inside a Catholic church in Owo, Ondo, Nigeria. 2022-06-5
Nigerian Information Minister Lai Mohammed announces that the government is indefinitely suspending Twitter's operations in the country, saying that the social media service is being used for "activities that are capable of undermining Nigeria’s corporate existence". The move comes two days after President Muhammadu Buhari was temporarily suspended from Twitter for posting an inflammatory tweet directed at groups believed to be responsible for attacking government buildings in recent weeks. 2021-06-4
Australia withdraws its ambassador after eight people including Brazilian Rodrigo Gularte, an Indonesian, four Nigerians, and two Australians, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran are executed. 2015-04-29
Voters in Nigeria go to the polls for a general election. Gunmen kill at least 15 voters including an opposition house of assembly candidate for Dukku in Gombe. 2015-03-28
Gunmen kill eight people in an attack on a police station and a bank in northeastern Nigeria. 2013-03-5
Senegal recalls its ambassador to Iran, saying that Iran had not provided an adequate explanation for an arms shipment seized in Nigeria. 2010-12-15
An armed group kidnaps at least two Americans, two Frenchmen and a Canadian from a Transocean oil rig in the Okoro Oilfield off the coast of Niger Delta, Nigeria, injuring two others. 2010-11-8